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Naz Deniz Atik; Alexander LaTourrette; Sandra R. Waxman – Developmental Science, 2024
To learn the meaning of a new word, or to recognize the meaning of a known one, both children and adults benefit from surrounding words, or the sentential context. Most of the evidence from children is based on their accuracy and efficiency when listening to speech in their familiar native accent: they successfully use the words they know to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Speech Communication, Language Processing, Listening
Asikin-Garmager, Eli Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation provides a formal and functional analysis of grammatical voice in Sasak, an Austronesian language spoken in Eastern Indonesia. The research addresses two primary questions, which are (1) how does Sasak clause structure and morphosyntax vary across dialects? and (2) what shapes speakers' syntactic production, namely grammatical…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Foreign Countries, Morphology (Languages), Syntax